From left: Pyeongchang 2018 Winter Olympics Women's speed skating gold medallists Nao Kodaira, Miho Takagi, Nana Takagi, Ayano Sato and Ayaka Kikuchi attend a fan event in Tokyo on Tuesday. Photo: REUTERS/Toru Hanai
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Japan's Olympians share Pyeongchang experiences with fans

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Welcome back heroes!! What a great photo. Young Japanese challengers who took on and conquered the world! Especially for the girl athletes -- Japanese females are incredibly strong and can do anything, inspired by the Gold Medal winners. Now, onto Tokyo 2020!!

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Overall a great Olympics with lots of stories and drama!

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Japanese Society is easy to be excited,and easy to forget.

Japanese Society excitedly praise Medalists who Most Japanese did not know till last month,but lose interests soon and forget in less than a year.

it is repeated it whenever Olympics.

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That's right Aoi.

The gold medalists all have foreign coaches but this will not be used to suggest there is anything wrong with Japanese coaching, which will not change.

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Curling... Such a weird "sport". Once in four years is plenty!

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Aoi, I don't think it's just Japan who does it - Australia is the same. The Australian government pumps a huge amount of funds into certain sports in an attempt to win medals, the Australian public gets a little sugar high and congratulates itself on how good at sports it is, then forgets.

It's a bit of a sham really.

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Great job Japan. Ignore the usual naysayers, how many Olympic medals do they have.

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Girls in red are very glamorous. They are expensive too, unlike Japanese men.

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Everyone will run out and buy Asics curling shoes. Students will join curling clubs. Ski resorts will add curling sheets. The team members will appear on every talk/variety show for weeks. They will appear in commercials. And, will be at the Kohaku along with other medalists, as part of a big musical number commemorating Japan's success at the Winter games, while promoting the upcoming summer games.

You know, normal boom/fad/trend behavior in Japan.

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Great job Japan. Ignore the usual naysayers, how many Olympic medals do they have.

As 10 nations' teams garnered more medals at this year's Olympics than the Japan team, possibly a lot.

Of course, none of the commenters have won any, including all of the prideful fans who had nothing to do with the success of any team or athlete, so have nothing to really be proud of since they didn't actually accomplish anything themselves.

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Just a question: Why doesn't Japan honor all those who participated? Wasn't there something like 100 people from Japan who took part? To make the Olympic team is an accomplishment unto itself. Why not recognize everyone?

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